The Powell River Project proposed to design a curriculum with the Canadian urban environment as a major focus, using elementary teachers as developers (ED 055 018). This progress report contains individual summaries from seven elementary teachers, outlining the process of determining the children's knowledge of self and of the world around them.…

The purpose of this subproject is to guide students to meet and interact with individuals from the many subcultures in a community (see ED 055 011). This progress report of the second year's activities includes information on the process of curriculum development, the materials developed, evaluation, roles of supporting agencies, behavioral…

The CMAS, a detailed taxonomy of questions that is used to analyze "Concepts of Inquiry" materials, is described in ED 067 308. A brief summary of the sequential K-12 Cleveland program is given in ED 064 223. Materials for the course are interdisciplinary with a subject matter base of geography focusing on investigating communities. The…

In this third grade teaching guide emphasis is placed on community study, providing data for generalizations about cultural diversity. Affective objectives foster curiosity and respect for cultural contributions and differences. Inquiry, critical thinking, geographic and sequential development of skills are stressed. Four resource units that focus…

The conference aims for primary school social studies teaching are: 1) to create an awareness and an understanding of the evolving social and physical environment as a whole, together with the rational use and conservation of these resources for development; 2) to develop a capacity to learn and to acquire basic skills together with the skills of…

This publication, revised in 1968, was prepared to inform teachers and principals in the school system of the total social studies program. The program guide contains statements of general educational philosophy and objectives as well as basic principles of the social studies curriculum. Specific goals regarding academic knowledge, skills and…

The overall objective of this project is to develop an interdisciplinary social science curriculum to encourage elementary school children to view, in an historical perspective, the emergence of a Canadian identity and its relationship to continuing Canadian concerns; and, to examine his own identity and values, the identity of others, and his…

Innovative Social Studies: Urban Elementary Schools, known as ISSUES, is a social studies program actively pursuing the profound social problems of our times by daily student involvement with solutions as part of the curriculum. Upper elementary and junior high students increase their understanding in active participation in community problem…